Shootings

A manhunt continued Sunday following the fatal shooting of a Memphis police officer who was killed the previous night during a traffic stop, Tennessee police officials said. Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong said during a news conference that police were alerted about 9:18 p.m. Saturday that an officer had been shot multiple times. Armstrong said the officer was transported in critical condition to a hospital, where he died. In a statement Sunday morning, Memphis Police identified the slain officer as Sean Bolton, 33. Police also said that a civilian had used Bolton's radio to notify police about the shooting. No further details were released. Armstrong said police have...

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A manhunt continued Sunday following the fatal shooting of a Memphis police officer who was killed the previous night during a traffic stop, Tennessee police officials said.
Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong said during a news conference that...

Three men have died and at least 12 other people have been wounded in separate shootings since Saturday afternoon across the city, police said.
A man who was one of two people shot early Sunday along the lakefront on the South Side has died....

At least 10 people have been wounded in separate shootings since Friday evening across the city, police said.
A 21-year-old man was critically hurt and two 17-year-old boys were wounded in a shooting around 2:45 a.m. Saturday in the University Village...

A Blue Island man was fatally shot early Thursday on the Far South Side in the West Pullman neighborhood, officials said.
Jesse Diaz, 21, of the 12000 block of South Artesian Avenue in the South Suburb was pronounced dead about 4 a.m. at Roseland...

A man was killed and at least 18 others have been wounded since Thursday afternoon across the city, police said.
Around 11:40 p.m., a 35-year-old man was shot to death and a 19-year-old man was wounded in a shooting in the South Chicago neighborhood on...

The wife of a Loop CEO who was fatally shot by an employee last summer has filed a lawsuit against the gunman's estate.
The lawsuit on behalf of Jody LaVoie, the widow of Steven LaVoie, was filed Thursday in Cook County.
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No DNA evidence was linked to the man on trial in Lake Superior Court for murder in a 2014 shooting in Hammond.
Evidence presented Friday in the trial of Akeem Carpenter, 22, included testimony from Kimberly Anderson, a forensic scientist in the...

One man was shot dead, a second critically wounded late Thursday night when occupants of a car fired into a group of people standing outside a Gary housing development, police said.
Terrence Sallee II, 24, of the 2100 block of Carver Street, collapsed...

An Albuquerque Fire Department dispatcher who hung up on a 911 caller trying to help a teenage shooting victim has had his emergency medical dispatch license suspended.
New Mexico Department of Health investigators are looking into the actions of Matthew...

Evanston police said they are investigating a shooting that took place on the 1700 block of Payne Street Thursday afternoon, in which two men suffered bullet wounds.
The incident occurred at approximately 3:52 p.m., as two male victims were standing near...

Evanston police recovered a .380-caliber Kel-Tec handgun and charged a 16-year-old Evanston juvenile in connection with the shooting of a Skokie man Wednesday afternoon as he exited his car in the 1700 block of Emerson Street.
The incident occurred about...

Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy has recommended that an officer be fired for lying about his role in an off-duty shooting nearly four years ago, a department source said Wednesday.
Officer Francisco Perez has been stripped of his police...

One person was killed and at least five have been wounded by gunfire citywide since Wednesday afternoon, police said.
The fatal shooting occurred about 3:40 a.m. Thursday in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side, said Officer Amina...

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, R, who presides over a state with a high rate of gun violence and a low quality of gun laws, is shocked. "We never would've imagined it would've happened in Louisiana or Lafayette," he said after last week's movie...

At least eight people have been injured, one critically, in shootings across the city since Monday afternoon.
A 22-year-old man was shot at about 7:23 a.m. Tuesday in the Albany Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side, said News Affairs Officer Jose...

A Will County judge Monday found a Joliet man not guilty of murder charges connected with a 2012 shooting at a fast food restaurant.
Daeviontae Pruitte, 21, faced murder charges for the death of Timothy Egner. The 54-year-old Crest Hill man was found...

The shooting death of a woman Sunday morning at a Hillside hotel was ruled accidental by the Cook County medical examiner's office Monday.
The woman, 51, of Cincinnati, was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:15 a.m. Sunday at a Best Western,...

One of the two teens accused in the shooting of an off-duty Oak Park police officer threw urine at a guard in the juvenile detention center, prosecutors said in court Monday.
Taiwan McNeal, 18, and David Bush, 17, both have been charged with the...

Three teens and four others were killed across Chicago between Friday afternoon and Monday morning and 35 others survived gunshot wounds during the same period.
The homicides this weekend bring the year's total to 263, according to an analysis of a...

A teenage boy and an 18-year-old man were fatally wounded and at least 10 people were shot in separate incidents Sunday through Monday morning in Chicago.
In the Little Village neighborhood on the Southwest Side, a 16-year-old boy was shot...